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Nishnawbe Aski Nation leaders have drawn a line in the Northern Ontario wilderness.

Maureen Comuzzi-Stehmann has nabbed the nomination for the federal Conservatives in the Thunder Bay – Rainy River riding. Comuzzi-Stehmann announced she intended to run for the conservative nomination for that riding in late July.

Police have laid a single charge under Ontario’s new zero-tolerance drinking and driving law for driver’s 21-years-old and younger. The new law, which is currently being challenged by a young man in Toronto as a Charter violation, took effect Aug. 1.

At least one person was sent to hospital after a crash Thursday morning. Two vehicles collided at the intersection of Court and Camelot Streets around 11 a.m. Thursday.

Saying he’d rather focus on jobs than creating park land, Ontario’s official opposition leader Tim Hudak says he will repeal the Liberal's proposed Far North Act should it pass and the Conservatives then go on to win the 2011 provincial election.

A group of First Nations teenagers around the region are flying high after being selected to participate in a special aviation camp.

There could soon be a new community information and emergency broadcast radio station hitting the airwaves in Thunder Bay. At least that's what one city resident is hoping for.

Ontario firefighters are arriving back home after spending 10 days lending a hand to Saskatchewan fire crews. About 20 crews from the West Fire Region started returning to the Northwest Thursday at the Thunder Bay International Airport.

Thunder Bay Police are looking for a man wanted for attempted murder in Brampton. Police believe Troy Moulton, 22, could be in the Thunder Bay area after a shooting in Brampton July 26.

Canada and the United States used to harvest 15 million pounds of lake trout from Lake Huron and Lake Superior annually.